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<h2>FOBTV Introduction</h2>
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  <p align="left">The Future of Broadcast Television Initiative (FOBTV) is an unincorporated, non-for-profit, voluntary association founded by 13 television broadcast organizations* from around the world. The FOBTV is established to research and develop the system technologies for next generation terrestrial broadcast systems standard and is open to any organization that signs the MOU.
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  <p align="left">The Future of Broadcast Television (FOBTV) Initiative is built based on the Future of Broadcast Television Summit Shanghai, in November 2011, where these world broadcasting leaders established a framework for cooperation to chart the future course of terrestrial television broadcasting. In April 2012, technical executives from 13 television broadcast organizations signed the memorandum of understanding (MOU) to officially form the global Future of Broadcast Television (FOBTV) Initiative.
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  <p align="left">* Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC), Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC), Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB), European Broadcast Union (EBU), Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Globo TV-Brazil, IEEE Broadcast Technology Society (IEEE-BTS), National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), National Engineering Research Center of Digital TV of China (NERC-DTV), NHK Science and Technology Research Laboratories (NHK), Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the Brazilian Society of Television Engineers (SET))
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<h2>FOBTV Goals</h2>
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  <p align="left">1. Develop future ecosystem models for terrestrial broadcasting taking into account business, regulatory and technical environments </p>
  <p align="left">2. Develop requirements for next generation terrestrial broadcast systems </p>
  <p align="left">3. Foster collaborations of DTV development laboratories </p>
  <p align="left">4. Recommend major technologies to be used as the basis for new standards5.Request standardization of selected technologies (layers) by appropriate standards development organizations  </p>
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